Indonesia unveils plan to halve forest fires by 2019

Mongabay
Dec 29, 2017, 4:55 am183 pts
JAKARTA – The Indonesian government has unveiled an ambitious plan to nearly halve the number of fire hotspots in the country by 2019, in part through the restoration of degraded peat forests. The fires are an annual occurrence, linked to the clearing of forests for logging and monoculture plantations. In…

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